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Era Names

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The Empire Builder Series has been designed to help flesh out your campaigns, empires and kingdoms. It covers currency, historical events, settlements and more.

Era Names refers to various periods of history for your empire, kingdom, country, etc. The name may be factual and exact or, like the so-called 100-years war, be a bit misleading, sometimes deliberately so. This can be the period of time as its called by historians or by those who lived during it.

Featuring 3 xd100 tables that combine in various ways to give you a suggested name for your time period.

Description

Publisher's blurb:

The Empire Builder Series has been designed to help flesh out your campaigns, empires and kingdoms. It covers currency, historical events, settlements and more.

Era Names refers to various periods of history for your empire, kingdom, country, etc. The name may be factual and exact or, like the so-called 100-years war, be a bit misleading, sometimes deliberately so. This can be the period of time as its called by historians or by those who lived during it.

Featuring 3 xd100 tables that combine in various ways to give you a suggested name for your time period.

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Pros
  • High overall rating (8.2) with meaningful player count
  • Theme treated with respect; game-first design
Cons
  • Religious theme can be polarizing for some players
Thematic elements
  • religious history with thematic gameplay
  • biblical/Jewish thematic backdrop
  • theme-forward but game-first
Comparison games
  • Gollum (theme-related discussion context)
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Engine Building — build toward a religious/historical objective
  • thematic engine-building — build toward a religious/historical objective
  • Unique Player Powers — different factions/roles with unique abilities
  • Variable player powers — different factions/roles with unique abilities
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  • It's 2026 now, which means it's time for that thing that I like to do every single year
  • I want to play 30 of the 35 games I set out for myself
  • Three games a month would make it doable
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